Some Poetic Techniques to help you analyse poems!

Poetic Techniques are the key sources in a poem. Without poetic techniques, a poem would mean and be nothing.

Poetic Techniques


Metaphor: When one thing is said to be another. Example: The sun is an orange balloon escaping from the grip of our universe


Personification:Giving human characteristics to something non human ( or not alive ). Example: "A host, of golden daffodills; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze."


Onomatopoeia: A word that sounds like the sound it is describing. Example: Click, bang.















Sources: Ms Bowie's Class notes, William Wordsworth "I wandered lonely as a Cloud"